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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Palm, RIM, Samsung, Studies, Apple

Well in this place’s a Shift, according to an NPD Group study, RIM sits atop the sales charts in the smartphone world and HTC doesn’t even make the top five. During the period from January until July of 2008, 9 million sets were sold in the US for a cool $1.7 billion. Behind the mighty BlackBerry comes Apple’s –the iPhone launch is being touted as the magic that helped ease them into second place — followed by Palm, Samsung , and Motorola. The NPD Group goes on to mention that smartphone sales are up ten percent over the same period last year to 19 percent of all phones sold and that pricing is down seven percent to an average price of $185 per handset. Follow the read link for more tasty bits of number crunchery.

[Via Moconews]

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Tags: Apple, Blackberry, Blogs, Group Study, HTC, iphone, Launch, Leads, Magic, Moconews, Motorola, Nbsp, Npd Group, Palm, Rim, Sales Charts, Samsung, Tasty Bits

Filed under: Handsets, O2, GSM, EDGE, Apple, OS X

The whispers are true, or so it seems. According to Stuff, O2 is getting set to one-up T-Mobile’s price cutting affair in Germany by hacking a full £100 from the 8GB iPhone in the UK (bringing it down to £169). Better still, the discount will apply regardless of which contract selection you make, whereas T-Mobile forced users to sign the dotted line on a pricey Complete XL plan. Unfortunately, the decrease sticker only applies to the 8GB version — the 16GB model will remain £329 — but anyone who sprung for one of the former iterations within the last month will receive an “Ultimate Price Promise” £100 refund voucher. Before you dash out to cash in, it should be noted that the deal is set to expire come June — and we certainly don’t have to remind you what that could mean.

[Via Mobile Today, thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Tags: Apple Os X, Blogs, Cutting, Dotted Line, Germany, Hacking, iphone, Iterations, Nbsp, Os X, Price Promise, Stuff, T Mobile, Voucher, Whispers, Xl

Filed under: Handsets, Features, LG, ATT, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

While we’re all twiddling our thumbs and waiting patiently for next month’s Vu release on AT&T, we suppose some reading materials couldn’t hurt, right? We’ve found no earth-shattering surprises in these quick guides that are filtering their way into corporate stores, but we do think it’s kinda funny that they’re pushing Cellular Video right alongside Mobile TV on page one; then again, with a MediaFLO launch that covers just a fraction of AT&T’s total coverage area, we suppose we’ll still need some entertainment when we’re out in the sticks. Video Share instructions are in this place, along with the comforting reminder that a light finger press is sufficient to operate the Vu’s touch screen — so yeah, we’re pretty much educated and ready, AT&T. Bring it on.

[Thanks, anonymous tipster]

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Tags: Amp, Att, Blogs, Corporate Stores, Coverage Area, Earth, Fraction, Launch, Mobile Tv, Nbsp, Quick Guides, Reading Materials, Reminder, Surprises, Touch Screen, Tv Guides, Umts, Video Share